Re: [Bug-gnubg] FIBS oldmoves import

[Holger]

At 09:17 31.10.2003, Joern Thyssen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:25:46PM +0100, Jim Segrave wrote
> > On Wed 29 Oct 2003 (14:49 -0700), West, Robert wrote:
> > > Snowie ignores all the extra text and extracts just the FIBS toggle
> > > moves information.  I'm not why gnubg can't do the same thing.
> > > Snowie can also pull multiple matches out of the same text file.
> > >
> > > Here is an example game mixed in with the usual FIBS garbage....I
> > > can load this directly into Snowie using IMPORT FIBS toggle moves
> > > option.
> > >
> > > It would be extremely useful to get gnubg to do this, as it should
> > > not be client dependent and telnet output is as vanilla as it gets.
> >
> > Is there a spec anywhere describing all the valid lines a game might
> > produce (to allow writing a parser which can discard the non-game
> > material)?
>
> gnubg should be able to read such a file. It'll only read the first
> match, though.
>
> gnubg is searching for
>
> " %31s is X - %31s is O\n"
>
> which is the place where the oldmoves log start.
> It should ignore all other text in the log.

Biggles send me directly on FIBS a match log which didn't work because of 
wrong line wrapping (and a missing newline).

The problem were these lines:
You win the game and get 2 points. Congratulations!Score is 0-0 in a 7 
point mat
ch.
cht is X - Biggles_two is O

Which should read:
You win the game and get 2 points. Congratulations!
Score is 0-0 in a 7 point match.
cht is X - Biggles_two is O

After this small change I was able to import the match.

The relevant code from import.c is this:

    while( 1 ) {
        if( ( n = fscanf( pf, "Score is %d-%d in a %d", &n0, &n1,
                          &nLength ) ) == EOF ) {
            outputerrf( _("%s: not a valid oldmoves file"), szFilename );
            return -1;

I suppose there's no easy way to make it robust against newlines in between 
the line.

Regards,

        Holger